Now here’s a topic that works for me! Peanut butter is one of my favorite foods. It has been a staple in our home forever, and it might be that because I grew up on peanut butter sandwiches (especially when there wasn’t much of anything else in the house except a jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread when I was a kid), but I’m always open to new ideas for using peanut butter. For this week’s Home Matters Linky Party #209, I decided to gather up a few keto-friendly, low-carb recipes that include peanut butter. Here’s what I found . . . . #PeanutButter #HomeMattersParty

There are lots of great recipes that include peanut butter, but most of them also feature chocolate . . . all of which is great if you are looking for a sweet treat. But I was hoping to find a recipe for bars or bread that would be really peanut butter-y but maybe not quite so sweet. Here’s a recipe for peanut butter bread that actually doesn’t include any type of flour at all. Not even almond or coconut flour, which are typically included in low-carb bread and bar recipes. So I might have to give this one a try!

No chocolate in this recipe either, but it looks like it would be the perfect yummy dessert for anyone watching their carb count for the day. We really aren’t doing full-on keto, but just doing our best to minimize sugar and carbs. Makes a huge difference in how I feel and my energy level, and especially if I can still have peanut butter – works for me!

I have to confess – most of the low-carb recipes we’ve tried have been pretty good. I think that might be partly because most keto-friendly recipes and foods have a high (good) fat content so they fill you up rather quickly and stick with you for a while. Whenever I would have a bagel and cream cheese or an English muffin with peanut butter (actually my favorite!), I would be hungry again in about an hour or two. With the high (good) fat / moderate protein meals, I just don’t think about feeling hungry most of the time. When I first read about “fat bombs” that seemed kind of yucky to me, but they are really pretty good, too. But a little goes a long way, because they are really super rich. Peanut butter, cream cheese, sweetener (we use Stevia), and a little bit of cream make these sweet and yummy for a mid-morning coffee break.

Here’s another recipe I found that can be made with or without the chocolate layer on top. I was looking for a recipe that might be good for a breakfast bar, so I didn’t want it really sweet, but lots of peanut butter is a very good thing!

Then there is the true peanut butter cup lover’s choice – No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups from Ketovale. If these are as good as they look, we just might be making this every week around here. I’m definitely going to give this recipe a try this weekend. I’ll let you know how they turn out!

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After our little family getaway in October, we all came home feeling a little under the weather. Nothing horrible, just some congestion, coughing, and generally feeling rather miserable. After two months of being focused on the low-carb recipes for my family, by the middle of October I just didn’t have the energy to even really care about finding fun new recipes. Whatever was in the cupboard or fridge became the go-to for every meal and anytime in between when someone declared, “I’m hungry!” By then, between feeling rather unhealthy to begin with, eating whatever was convenient added an extra dimension of feeling kind of blah. Now, however, we are all healthy again (at least for a while, trying to escape the annual bouts of flu and colds), so we decided to give the low-carb lifestyle another try.

Gracie found this recipe, probably on Pinterest, and it looked pretty simple. The only thing we had to buy that we don’t normally keep on hand was fresh spinach. We use fresh spinach occasionally for other recipes, but it is not something that we buy every week because if you don’t use it within a few days it gets kind of yucky. Last night we all worked together in the kitchen, frequently tripping over one another, to learn how to make this really yummy cream cheese and spinach stuffed chicken recipe. Actually, the recipe we first used was a bit different from this one, but this recipe from GIMME DELICIOUS looks a bit easier, using the same ingredients we used last night. You really should give this one a try . . . . sometimes plain ol’ chicken breasts can get rather boring, but this recipe will not disappoint.

Our first recipe called for putting the cream cheese and spinach on top of the seasoned chicken breasts in a baking dish. Then, we sprinkled mozzarella cheese on top of everything and baked it in the oven for about an hour. It was great! But the cheese on top got a little bit too browned and crispy, so when I found this recipe where you stuff the cream cheese and spinach mixture inside each chicken breast, I wanted to give this one a try next time.

I think whether you pan fry or bake them in the oven, this will work even better than the way we did it last night. We had this delicious chicken dish, along with some steamed broccoli, for supper and my whole family loved it. This one is a keeper, especially if you are looking for ways to cut back on carbs. The great thing about a low-carb / moderate protein / high (good) fat lifestyle is that most of the recipes are quite simple, and they fill you right up!

So I’m back on track, I think, to discover a whole bunch more great low-carb recipes to share with you, along with encouraging my family to cut the carbs and sugar when and where we can. I sure do feel a whole lot better when I do that.

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Since we’ve been trying to pay attention to excessive carbs in our meals, I’ve been learning a lot. And I’ve also been cooking more than I used to. Actually, cooking and preparing meals that are lower in carbs seems easier than some of the meals my family used to prefer. Oh, we still have hamburgers on the grill, as well as spaghetti once in a while, and other ordinary stuff like baked chicken with rice or noodles . . . but I’m discovering that using different cheeses with chicken or riced cauliflower in place of regular rice is just as yummy and my family likes it, too. But I will admit that trying to figure out something new and different to do with plain ol’ boring chicken has been a challenge. So this week for the Home Matters Linky Party #202 when I realized that the theme was chicken recipes, I decided to broaden my culinary horizons even more than I have over the past couple of months. #Chicken #Recipes #HomeMattersParty

I have only had two slices of bread in the past almost two months, and that was because I was busy so I just quick made a peanut butter sandwich. Both times it was the same reason for grabbing the first thing at hand and slapping some peanut butter on it to give me some protein and energy. I survived, but the interesting thing is that I haven’t had any of those midnight cravings for high carb, high sugar junk food. Well, actually I rarely felt the need to get up in the middle of the night to eat . . . when I finally get a chance to sleep, I’m not interested in being interrupted for much of anything these days. I guess so many years of waking up multiple times every night with crying babies, sick kids, teenage drama, and all the other reasons that kids would wake me up at 3:00 a.m. has finally reached my lifetime quota of bolting up from a dead sleep to make sure everyone is still alive. Although there are still times when one of them peeks around the door of the bedroom and whispers, “Mom! Mom! Are you asleep?” Ummmm . . . I was until you just woke me up. “What’s the matter?” I inquire like a zombie waking from the dead. “Oh, nothing. I couldn’t sleep so I wondered if you were awake. Good night!” So pretty much no eating in the middle of the night for me!

But we were getting a bit over it with boring chicken breasts so I was really happy to find a few fun new ideas that can either be made up just the way the recipe is or can be modified to limit the carbs. So we’ll be trying a few of these chicken recipes soon, especially on these (hopefully soon!) cooler autumn afternoon and evenings when I don’t mind having the oven on for an hour or so before dinner time. Here’s what I found for this week’s chicken recipe roundup!

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It’s been interesting, this whole low-carb eating project. It hasn’t felt like a “diet” at all, and I rarely feel hungry, so as long as I have some stuff in the house that fills all of the requirements of being “low-carb, high fat, moderate protein,” I’m doing pretty good. I definitely can tell the difference in how my clothes are fitting me, and most days I have more energy without the typical crash in the middle of the afternoon. That’s been a good thing, although I do have a bad habit of doing WAY more than I really should try to do in a day and then the next day I’m kind of burned out. But I’m getting better about finding a bit of balance. I think. For this week’s #HomeMattersParty I decided to find a few more #breakfast #recipes because really, bacon and eggs for breakfast everyday is getting old! #breakfast #recipes #HomeMattersParty

I found a few recipes that look really yummy, and I think my whole family would like most of these breakfast ideas. We’ve already found quite a few things that everyone around here really likes, so this seems to be working out great for our family. I still make things like banana bread once in a while (Annie’s favorite!), and spaghetti and some other family favorites, but it has worked out that I can have something similar without a ton of extra work, time, or expense. And since I’m having more energy, well, it all works out great! Here are some low-carb breakfast ideas that we’ll be trying out around here this coming week.

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We actually rarely eat hot dogs, even though we all really like them. It is just that we usually don’t get around to buying them except on special occasions, and then the girls just kind of think they are “boring.” So . . . when this week’s Home Matters Party theme turned out to be hot dogs, I had to do a bit of research to find some ideas that might work for our family. Since I’ve been trying to cut back on carbs, I thought that this might be a good opportunity to mix it up with some bacon and cheese and see what that might look like with some hot dogs. I’m thinking that my family will like hot dogs THIS way! #HotDogs #HomeMattersParty

I found a bunch of ideas for fixing bacon wrapped hot dogs, either as regular ol’ hot dogs that you could put on a bun or as appetizers as little hot dog bites. Of course some of them are covered with yummy barbecue sauce, but for my low-carb project, I could do the whole thing, all wrapped in crispy bacon and stuffed with cheddar cheese. A little bit of mustard, maybe even some sauerkraut on top . . . and my family doesn’t even have to be deprived because I’m cutting carbs!

It’s been a busy month, all of August, as the girls started back to school and I’ve been working six days a week with my online teaching. I think a fun hot dog supper will be the perfect way to feed my family on this upcoming holiday weekend. We are hoping to get some painting done over the three day weekend, so we won’t have much time for cooking. I’ll let you know how these turn out! If you have any low carb recipes that you have found that work for you and your family, I would love to have you share them with me. For now, I hope you can join us for this week’s Home Matters Linky Party and catch up with some of the other bloggers out here with their creativity and inspiration for all thing home and family. See you there!

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We’ve been experimenting with different recipes and low-carb meal ideas, and we’ve discovered some really fun and yummy things to eat that our whole family enjoys. I’ve often served spinach salad with a variety of added toppings, including strawberries, so this wasn’t really anything “new” but it was an opportunity to whip up something that was relatively keto-friendly and we already knew we liked. When I was working on this week’s post for the Home Matters Linky Party #198 and looking for some cool salads, this immediately came to mind!

As I’ve been reading about low-carb and keto-friendly lifestyle ideas, I noticed that there are not a lot of fruits that work well with keto. Because most fruits have a lot of natural sugar, that translates into carbs, so if you are going to include fruit in your diet (so I’ve read) it needs to be in small quantities and just the ones that are lower on the carb count list. Strawberries are included because they are relatively low in carbs at 9 NET per 1 cup halved berries. For this salad, 1/2 cup of halved strawberries then would be around 4.5 carbs, added to the fresh spinach at 1 carb / 1 cup, and since my favorite dressing on this salad is Poppy Seed, I splurged and had a couple of tablespoons of dressing at 5 carbs / TBSP. And then, the best part was that I added a broiled chicken breast, cut in slices, to the top of my salad and that was more than enough dinner that night.

I’m not actually on a strict low-carb diet, just trying to pay attention and cut back where I can, so this worked out pretty good for our family . . . and me!

Of course, there are lots of other good additions to a spinach and strawberry salad, such as pecans or other nuts, feta cheese, or even bacon, which is another perfect food for a low-carb lifestyle.

Here are a few other recipes for spinach and strawberry salad, but if you are working towards a low-carb lifestyle, be sure to count the carbs before you load it up with all the other yummy stuff. I’m experimenting with a few other low-carb recipes these days, and some of them turn out pretty good, others turn out GREAT, and some others not so much. But all in all, I’m still feeling much more energetic, and definitely can feel the difference in how my clothes are fitting. I’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, I hope you can catch up with us at this week’s Home Matters Linky Party where you’ll find a TON of great ideas, you’ll meet some new blogging friends, and you’ll just have fun! See you there!

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As I’ve been experimenting with different recipes for low-carb foods, and reading more articles on what is helpful and what doesn’t work so great for following a keto-friendly diet, I’ve really learned a lot! After almost three weeks, some days feeling more energetic than others, I was drinking water only. Nothing else. Which wasn’t a big change for me because I’ve never been one to drink soda pop very often (I think because we never had it as I was growing up, so it has just never been something I think to buy when I’m grocery shopping). But I will say I miss orange and grape juice, but they are both very high-carb juices. So water it is! For this week’s theme of beverages for Home Matters Linky Party #197 , I thought it would be fun to share with you some of the quick and easy keto-friendly summer drinks I came up with. #Beverages #Drinks #HomeMattersParty

The other day I read an article that explained that with minimizing carbs in your diet, you will naturally lose water weight, so you need to make sure to stay hydrated. That was a good thing to know, because I’ve been struggling a bit this summer with water retention around my ankles – haven’t had a problem with that since the last time I was pregnant! – so now I’m finding that this low-carb thing is really helping with that problem. But it also meant that I was always needing something to drink, and I was just getting bored with water, water, water. I discovered a couple of ways to make lemonade and lemon cream smoothies that really helped with that problem.

But, since I’m not doing the keto-thing exactly, just working on minimizing carbs or a daily basis, some of my concoctions might not be right for someone who is counting carbs and strictly following the carb count to achieve and maintain ketosis. Check out the recipes below for the exact carb, calorie, and other nutritional information. I’ll just tell you how I’ve been doing it, and let you know that most days I am really feeling a difference in my energy level, my skin tone, and the decreasing water retention. As soon as I get around to it, I’ll tell you if I’ve lost any weight. But I will tell you this . . . . most of the summer tops and slacks I have now seem a little bit loose around the waist, arms, tummy, and upper legs. I’ll let you know!

Here are a few summer beverages that I’ve tried with my own twist on low-carb. Let me know what you think!

This recipe for a Lemon Cream Smoothie is from I Breathe I’m Hungry, and it looks really yummy! Be sure to visit their blog for the recipe. I just used a few ingredients and it worked great! 1/2 c heavy whipping cream, 4 TBSP lemon juice (sometimes I cut up a whole lemon, peeled and quartered and toss it, too), 1/2 TBSP stevia sweetener, and a cup of ice cubes. Mix it all in the blender and blend for a minute or two until the ice cubes are completely pulverized and you will have a thick, cold, frosty, lemony smoothie. Super simple.

I did the same thing, almost, to make the chocolate peanut butter smoothie. This one was a mixture of heavy whipping cream, stevia, a couple teaspoons of cocoa powder, and ice all blended together. Then I added 1 TBSP of unsweetened peanut butter. Really yummy! You can find this recipe at Low Carb Yum.

I found this recipe on Pinterest, but I made mine using the same basic ingredients: heavy whipping cream (you can also use part unsweetened almond milk), stevia, and ice cubes. Then I added a tsp of vanilla and a tsp of cinnamon, whipped it all together in the blender, and you will have a thick, creamy, smoothie. Each one of these smoothies will have between 4 – 7 net carbs, but if you need to count carefully, be sure to measure exactly and count the carbs in each of the ingredients.

There are (apparently) lots of different ways to make eggnog, so you will want to find some specific recipes that will work for you . . . . but I made mine rather quickly using heavy cream, stevia, one raw egg (I realize there are ways to sterilize raw eggs to avoid any contamination, but that is for another post), cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. You can also substitute part of the cream for the unsweetened almond milk. Whip it all together in the blender, toss in a few ice cubes to make it thick like a milk shake, and there you have a yummy keto-friendly Eggnog Cream Smoothie. Visit the Keto Diet App website for the complete recipe as well as more information about using raw eggs in your keto-friendly recipes.

The day that I decided to find some ways to drink my water and add a little pizzazz, it suddenly dawned on me that I could actually make my own lemonade . . . . why did it take me so long to figure that out??? This one is super simple and it really hit the spot on a hot afternoon when I was really needing a drink of something – other than water. I added about a cup of filtered water to my blender, poured in around 1/4 cup of lemon juice (today I ran out of lemon juice so I used lime juice to the little bit of lemon juice I had left), and added about 2 tsp. of stevia. Whirred it around in the blender for a few seconds, and it got kind of foamy and frosty. You can adjust the amount of lemon / lime juice and stevia to taste, and you can even toss in a few ice cubes to make it more like a slushy. Perfect on a hot summer afternoon. If you want to follow the recipe exactly on the website, go to The Busy Baker for their “healthy 3-ingredient lemonade.” I think their recipe calls for honey as a sweetener, and I didn’t want to do that so I replaced it with stevia. Experiment until you find what works for you!

And my final, favorite summer keto-friendly beverage is the plain ol’ fashioned Chocolate Cream Smoothie. I found the recipe at the Keto Diet App, but I also found one at Low Carb Joy, so check them out and see if either one might work for you. Of course, still being me and still not wanting to spend a lot of time messing around in the kitchen, I came up with my own version, using pretty much the same ingredients as the other smoothies: heavy whipping cream / unsweetened almond milk, stevia, cocoa powder, and ice cubes. Whip it all together until it is the consistency of a milk shake and adjust the sweetness and the cocoa powder to taste. One thing I discovered that was fun is that if I just use the heavy whipping cream, stevia, and cocoa powder and whip it all together in the blender, it actually turns into a yummy chocolate mousse. It is thick like soft serve ice cream, and of course it is very rich with all that straight whipping cream, but it was nice for a little treat. You can’t eat too much of it though because it is SO heavy and rich. Just fun for once in a while!

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Well, it’s been a little over a week now that we’ve been experimenting with low-carb, Keto-friendly foods, and we’ve found a few things that we really like. And a few that need more experimentation to figure out how to improve on the recipes that we’ve found. One of the best parts about this family experiment is that my girls are more interested in cooking (and I am too, I must admit!) so we’ve been having fun trying new recipes almost every day.

This Keto-friendly chicken alfredo pizza is one of the first recipes we found and we decided to try it right away. It actually tastes as good as it looks! We found this recipe over at All Day I Dream about Food (which almost made me pass it by, because one of my biggest annoyances about cooking is that I have to spend so much time thinking about FOOD . . . which really makes me cranky!), but Carolyn offers up this pretty quick and easy recipe for pizza crust and homemade alfredo sauce that really is worth taking the time to make. But it really doesn’t actually take that much time!

Since we already had some chicken breasts cooked, just waiting to be put into a new, yummy supper dish, and we also had all of the other ingredients, too, it was a lot of fun trying it out for the first time. And we all loved it! So we decided to make it again on the weekend instead of ordering pizza takeout which we often do on Friday nights. Even our Dad like it, but then he’s pretty easy to get along with . . . although he definitely is more opinionated about food than I am!

We had a couple of pieces left over (we’ve discovered that keto-friendly foods seem to fill you up much faster than the other high carb foods we are used to eating), and they were even good warmed up the next day for lunch. The alfredo sauce is super easy to make, and if you pop on over to Carolyn’s blog you will find an alternative recipe for Magic Mozzarella Pizza Crust which is the one we used. It was perfect with the alfredo sauce and chicken!

We are just getting started on this journey, but here’s what I have observed so far: I never feel hungry. I realize I am hungry occasionally, but I never actually “feel” hungry. That’s really no big deal for me, because I have had really bad eating habits for quite some time. If I don’t “feel” hungry, I don’t eat (usually because I’m too busy doing something else that I don’t want to stop long enough to eat . . . much less take the time to cook!), so I would wait, and wait, and wait, until I was REALLY hungry, and then I would eat stupid stuff. Not necessarily “bad” stuff, just not very thoughtful or intentional stuff. Then I would feel rather sluggish and lethargic, and wonder why I felt so miserable. And then the cycle would start all over again. It was not a very productive cycle to be on every day of the week!

One other thing that I’ve discovered is that all of the recipes I’ve come across are super easy, with very few ingredients, most of which are regular ol’ food that we already have on hand, or can keep on hand if we just buy more of it. Like eggs, cream, cheese, cottage cheese, and butter. I did buy some almond flour and coconut flour, as well as almond oil, and shredded mozzarella cheese and shredded parmesan cheese which we don’t typically keep on hand, but it’s all stuff we like so it worked out great. Most of the recipes we’ve tried are pretty quick, too, even the 3 minute microwave bread / muffins that I’m experimenting with.

So far the only challenges I’ve experienced are a rather yucky taste in my mouth which I address by drinking a lot more water (which is a good thing!) and really dry skin on my ankles and feet. That’s kind of weird, so I’m not sure if that has anything to do with the low-carb diet, but it hasn’t been quite this bad before. So I just keep putting lotion on the dry skin and hope it goes away soon. That’s it! No special meal prep (I just make the low carb stuff and everyone eats it. Then if they want mashed potatoes and gravy or whatever, I make that as well); I don’t have to think about food all day long just to make sure I’m remembering to feed my family, and I really, seriously never feel hungry.

I have a lot more energy which was my original goal. I have no idea if I’ve lost any weight or not because we don’t have a working scale – and I don’t know what I weighed before I started. I will probably get around to checking that out next week after the girls go back to school. Right now I’m pretty busy trying to get everything done for back-to-school, but when I check to see if I’ve lost weight, I’ll let you know.

If you are considering trying the keto / low-carb eating program, I would encourage you to learn all you can, check with your doctor, and let me know if you find any great recipes. I’ll be experimenting with new recipes for the next few weeks and would love to hear your ideas. Hope you are having a good summer, and that you are joyfully anticipating the upcoming change of seasons. I know I am!